Question

I’m using http://undesigned.org.za/2007/10/22/amazon-s3-php-class/documentation to access private files using php. I can get the data of the file by saying $object->body. I actually want to see the image in the browser or play the video in a video player. Is there a way to do that?

I think I need something like readfile. The problem is readfile is I need the path to the file. The path is private so I cannot use that. Is there a way to do a readfile of the binary data?

I put this in the php thinking this would help but it still displays the binary data.

header('Content: image/jpeg');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=IMAG0108.jpg');
echo $object->body;

Answer 1

You just set the content-type header and output the readfile to the browser. What I do is create a new php file, like “showimage.php”, that accepts an ID or some such to know what image to display. Then I use it in a browser page: .

In showimage.php, something like:

<?php 
    header('Content-type: image/png');
    readfile('/var/images/' . $_GET['id'] . '.png');
    // or
    // echo $object->body;
?>

That would read a file from the local system and output it as an image. Off the top of my head, so I might have messed up that code!